John Romero's Sigil in DOS on a 486 with a Roland SC-55
722This is John Romero's Sigil running in DOS on a 486 with a Roland SC-55 for MIDI sound.
Sigil available here: https://www.romerogames.ie/si6il
For those who don't have context, Sigil is a new mod for the original 1993 Doom to add a 5th episode to the game by one of the original developers.
This isn't a how-to video, but all you really need to know is Sigil causes a Visplane overflow in original versions of Doom.
There is a modded version of Doom Ultimate to add the 5th Episode: https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/103430-sigil-new-romero-megawad-released/?page=88&tab=comments#comment-1994456
Boom also fixes this problem, works in DOS, and supports a Sound Blaster and MPU-401 output:
https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/themes/TeamTNT/boom/boom202 . Using Boom on DOS with the original hardware pretty much "Just Works™" once you figure out the weird config program.
I haven't had a chance to actually play this yet, I kinda wanted this setup to be how I played it for the first time since that just feels right.
This is a sneak peak at my upcoming DOS PC build. I got this working and was rather pleased, so you can consider this a teaser for that video when it's ready.
Pertinent Specs:
OS: MS-DOS 6.22
CPU: DX4-100 Overdrive
RAM: 20MB
VIDEO: Diamond Stealth 24 SVGA
SOUND: ESS Audio Drive Sound Blaster Pro Clone
MIDI: PC-MIDI to Roland SC-55 ( https://www.serdashop.com/ISA-MPU-Card )
Playlists of more stuff like this:
1990s: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJVwF78cppBgFZG7xmmvAeerrjv1jiCvM
2010s: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJVwF78cppBhEDg1B1A0LUkBHIxqzyBh6
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